Song Quote of the Week

You Yankees are so silly about matters of the heart.
Don't you know that women are the only works of art?
--Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar and Stan Lynch, “Drivin' with Your Eyes Closed”

Song Quote of the Week

I've got a zillion ideas
And some of them great,
But nobody wants to listen.
I've got better ways
To get the job done,
But all you feel is threatened.
--Chris Butler and The Waitresses, “A Girl’s Gotta Do”

Song Quote of the Week

So this is what it's like living in limbo.
First I'm high, then I'm solo.
--Mike Elizondo, John O'Brien and Poe, “Wild”

Song Quote of the Week

Such a muddy line between
The things you want
And the things you have to do.
--Sheryl Crow, “Leaving Las Vegas”

Song Quote of the Week

An unexamined life is not worth living.
--Madonna, “Now I’m Following You (Part 2)”

Song Quote of the Week

Jacob wrestled the angel
And the angel was overcome.
--Bono, “Bullet the Blue Sky”

Song Quote of the Week

I wear my memories like a shroud
I try to speak but words collapse.
--Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Halloween”

Song Quote of the Week

What a drag it is, getting old.
--Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, “Mother's Little Helper”

Song Quote of the Week

Aunque soy pobre todo esto que te doy
Vale más que el dinero porque sí es amor.
(Even though I'm poor, all this that I give you
is worth more than money because it truly is love.)
--Selena, A. B. Quintanilla III and Pete Astudillo, “Amor Prohibido”

Song Quote of the Week

I'm through with stocks and bonds,
I'd rather spend it all on blondes...
--Sam M. Lewis, “If I Ever Get a Job Again”

Song Quote of the Week

Make a country that's fat and smart
That doesn't love to screw its own
And gives, instead of sucks the world dry.
--Chris Butler and The Waitresses, “They’re All Out of Liquor, Let’s Find Another Party”

Song Quote of the Week

Well we know where we're goin'
but we don't know where we've been...
--David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads, “Road to Nowhere”

Song Quote of the Week

You mean you forgot cranberries too?
--Chris Butler of The Waitresses, “Christmas Wrapping”

Song Quote of the Week

Tell me, say it again,
how things are getting better.
I’ll pretend to believe it
as long as this foot’s on my neck.
Now what’s being taken away?
What else am I giving up?
--Chris Butler and The Waitresses, “Bread and Butter”

Song Quote of the Week

Come here.
No, I won't say please.
One more look at the ghost
Before I'm gonna make it leave.
--Mike Elizondo, John O'Brien and Poe, “Haunted”

Song Quote of the Week

I’ve seen the future, I can’t afford it.
--Martin Fry and Mark White of ABC, “How to Be a Millionaire”

Song Quotes of the Week

Walter Afanasieff, Desmond Child and Draco Rosa, “She Bangs”
Bono, “Bullet the Blue Sky”
Buddy Buie, James Cobb, Harry Middlebrooks Jr. and Mike Shapiro, “Spooky”
Chris Butler, “Christmas Wrapping”
Chris Butler, “Christmas Wrapping”
Chris Butler and The Waitresses, “A Girl's Gotta Do”
Chris Butler and The Waitresses, “Bread and Butter”
Chris Butler and The Waitresses, “They're All Out of Liquor, Let's Find Another Party”
David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth, “Road to Nowhere”
Billy Crystal and Paul Shaffer, “You Look Marvelous”
Sheryl Crow, “Leaving Las Vegas”
Mark Z. Danielewski, Kenneth Burgomaster and Poe, “Hey Pretty {Drive-By 2001 Mix]”
Ray Davies, “Father Christmas”
Donovan, “Sunshine Superman”
Mike Elizondo, John O'Brien and Poe, “Haunted”
Mike Elizondo, John O'Brien and Poe, “Wild”
Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy, “Free Your Mind”
Glenn Frey and Don Henley, “Wasted Time”
Martin Fry and Mark White, “How to Be a Millionaire”
Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar and Stan Lynch, “Drivin' with Your Eyes Closed”
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “Mother's Little Helper”
Billy Joel, “The Stranger”
Mark Knopfler, “Industrial Disease”
Sam M. Lewis, “If I Ever Get a Job Again”
Madonna, “Now I'm Following You (Part 2)”
Don McLean, “American Pie”
Bobby “Boris” Pickett and Leonard L. Capizzi, “Monster Mash”
Bob Seger, “Night Moves”
Selena, A. B. Quintanilla III and Pete Astudillo, “Amor Prohibido”
Steven Severin, “Halloween”
Paul Simon, “I Am a Rock”
Paul Simon, “The Boxer”
Ken Spooner and Kim Williams, “If the Devil Danced in Empty Pockets”
Jim Steinman, “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)”
The Doors, “The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)”
The Doors, “When the Music's Over”

Song Quote of the Week

Get this winter over with!
--Chris Butler of The Waitresses, “Christmas Wrapping”

Song Quote of the Week

Dark languages rarely survive.
--Mark Z. Danielewski, Kenneth Burgomaster and Poe, “Hey Pretty [Drive-By 2001 Mix]”

Song Quote of the Week

Before you read me
You gotta learn how to see me.
--Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy, “Free Your Mind”